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Fight over nightclub settled by consent (05/05/08)
The partnership operating Club 51 will dissolve by June 28, but the nightclub itself is expected to remain open. Tasha Roberson, 420 Fairbanks, intends to become the club's sole proprietor. Roberson sued her partners, Ebonie Strayhorn, 2125 Joshua Loop, and Brenda Jackson of Peachtree Apartments, for extortion, failure to pay their share of the rent and turning off the utilities. ...

Secretary chases man downtown after theft from purse (04/30/08)
A Memphis man was arrested for theft on Tuesday after a woman whose pocketbook he stole chased him into the Dyer County Courthouse. James Jones, 60, 2815 Bay Wood in Memphis, was booked into the Dyer County Jail on a $500 bond. Teresa Shell, a legal secretary in attorney Ralph Lawson's 306 S. Church Ave. law office, said she and Lawson were talking about a case in the office's back room at about 1:45 p.m. when she heard the door open, then close a few seconds later...

Budweiser's Clydesdales to appear on Mall lot (04/30/08)
The world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales, the symbol of quality and tradition for beer-maker Anheuser-Busch since 1933, are scheduled to make an appearance at the Dyersburg Mall. The eight-horse hitch will be harnessed and hitched to the famous red beer wagon from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7 at the Mall parking lot...

Board gets update on wireless gas meter reading (04/22/08)
Dyersburg utility chief Mike Morgan updated members of the city board on the benefits of the wireless reading of gas meters using the Datamatic company's "Firefly" technology at the regular meeting on Monday. Morgan said that about one-third of the city's gas meters have been converted to the wireless reading system. The rest are slated to be complete by mid-summer...

Women explain Ridgely murder (03/28/08)
A simmering feud escalated into a fight and ultimately ended with bloodshed and death on a Sunday afternoon in Ridgely. Now, 18-year-old Latandria "Rudy" Kimble faces a likely indictment for first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. Lake County General Sessions Court Judge Danny Goodman held a preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon and determined Wednesday afternoon that there was enough probable cause to bind the case over to the action of a grand jury. ...

Woman ordered to repay child's transplant fund (03/25/08)
A Dyersburg woman must repay $10,590 missing from her grandson's transplant fund, a circuit court judge declared Monday afternoon. Phyllis D. Vaughn, 57, 711 Wendell Ave., was charged with theft of property in excess of $10,000. She and her husband, Charles Norman Vaughn Sr., were in charge of a fund to benefit their grandson, Odell Terry, a teen-aged cystic fibrosis patient...

Tri-county region easily meets state waste reduction goal (03/21/08)
Dyer, Crockett and Gibson counties produced less wastes in 2007 than the year before, and they sent a smaller percentage of those wastes to municipal landfills. The tri-county solid waste region easily surpassed a state-mandated 25 percent waste reduction goal. ...

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